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The Critical Response to Tennessee Williams
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George W. Crandell
Book Code: GR9372
ISBN: 0-313-29372-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29372-6
352 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 8/30/1996
List Price: $112.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
Series Number: 24
Description: Tennessee Williams is generally regarded, along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, as one of the greatest American dramatists of the 20th century. This reputation rests upon more than 40 years of critical acclaim accrued by his two masterpieces-- A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie--and by a body of works that also includes the Pulitzer prize-winning drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and more than 60 other plays, such as The Rose Tattoo, Orpheus Descending, and The Night of the Iguana. He has created some of the most enduring characters on the American stage, and several actors have achieved stardom through roles created by him. Through representative reviews and criticism, this reference book provides a chronological record of the response to Williams's work. An introductory essay overviews his development as a dramatist and discusses some of the major themes in his works, while a chronology highlights the principal events in his life and career. Sections of the book are then devoted to his major plays. For the most significant plays, each section typically reprints several reviews and an extensive critical essay. The volume concludes with a selected bibliography of work by and about Tennessee Williams.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • Battle of Angels (1940)
  • The Glass Menagerie (1944)
  • You Touched Me! (1945)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
  • Summer and Smoke (1948)
  • The Rose Tattoo (1951)
  • Camino Real (1953)
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
  • Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton (1955)
  • Orpheus Descending (1957)
  • Garden District (1958)
  • Sweet Bird of Youth (1959)
  • I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix (1959)
  • The Purification (1959)
  • Period of Adjustment (1960)
  • The Night of the Iguana (1961)
  • The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
  • Slapstick Tragedy (1966)
  • Kingdom of Earth (The Seven Descents of Myrtle) (1968)
  • In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969)
  • Small Craft Warnings (1972)
  • Out Cry (The Two-Character Play) (1973)
  • The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1976)
  • Vieux Carreé (1977)
  • A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979)
  • Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980)
  • Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981)
  • A House Not Meant to Stand (1982)
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 96-18345
LCC Class: PS3545
Dewey Class: 812
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